{"id":573561,"date":"2023-05-02T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T03:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=573561"},"modified":"2023-05-02T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T04:17:37","slug":"expensive-coal-imports-logistics-may-result-in-higher-electricity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/expensive-coal-imports-logistics-may-result-in-higher-electricity-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Expensive coal imports, logistics may result in higher electricity bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trend of electricity bills price hikes in some states is expected to continue as electricity-producing companies plan to pass on the prices of expensive coal imports, Mint has reported. <\/p>\n<p>Notably, in light of the low availability of coal in September-October 2021 and April-May 2022, the Union power ministry had issued directions to power-generation companies to limit their use of imported coal up to 6 per cent of their total requirements until September. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to this, the rail-ship-rail (RSR) arrangement for the transportation of coal from coal-producing states in the Eastern part of India to the user plants in Western India has resulted in increased costs for companies engaged in coal production, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trend of electricity bills price hikes in some states is expected to continue as electricity-producing companies plan to pass on the prices of expensive coal imports, Mint has reported. Notably, in light of the low availability of coal in September-October 2021 and April-May 2022, the Union power ministry had issued directions to power-generation companies to limit their use of imported coal up to 6 per cent of their total requirements until September. In addition to this, the rail-ship-rail (RSR) arrangement for the transportation of coal from coal-producing states in the Eastern part of India to the user plants in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}